Spartakiads

In 1928 the first (international) Spartakiad was organised in Moscow. It was a multi-sports
event for "labourers" with the express intention of being an alternative to the "bourgeois"
Olympic Games (held in Amsterdam around the same time). A second event was held three years
later in Berlin but forbidden by the German authorities. It appears no more editions took place,
though some communist countries (in particular Albania, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union)
held national events under the same moniker after World War II until the fall of communism.

Held in August 1928 in Moskva, at the new Dinamo stadium.
The football team had 21 participants, divided over 2 groups: one including
12 teams from the Russian Federation and one with 9 teams from other Soviet
Republics and from abroad (including Uruguay, Spain and Switzerland).
Russian Final
Moskva 5-3 Leningrad
International Final
Ukraine 4-0 Uruguay [also reported 7-1]
Overall Final
Moskva 1-0 Ukraine
Other reported results:
Central Russia 1-7 Switzerland
Belarus 6-3 Switzerland
Uzbekistan 5-4 Switzerland
Leningrad 11-0 England
NB: not all results appear to fit with the reported set-up.

The Spartakiad was forbidden by the Berlin police authorities. Nevertheless, many
rotsport delegations came to the German capital and a number of football matches was
played under the moniker Internationales Sommerfest des Arbeitersport-Kulturkartells.
The tournament was not finished and results are not available.

Multi-sports event for teams from the Soviet Union, held (roughly) every four years, usually
in pre-olympic years. (Below only the summer tournaments are listed; in addition seven winter
spartakiads were held between 1962 and 1990, none of them featuring a football tournament.)